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Jaguarete – mystery cat?

PoC avatarPosted on March 15, 2022 by Michael BroadMarch 15, 2022

The jaguarete is better spelled with an accent acute over the last ‘e’ like this: jaguareté. This means it should be pronounced: jaguareteh as in saying ‘eh you’ or ‘Eh? What’s this?’. I don’t believe that it should be capitalised … Continue reading →

Posted in black panther | Tagged black jaguar, black panther, history, jaguar, jaguarete, South America | Leave a reply

Javan tiger – extinct due to human-tiger conflict

PoC avatarPosted on February 8, 2022 by Michael BroadFebruary 8, 2022

The Javan tiger is extinct but its close neighbour the Sumatran tiger is not (estimated 441 to 679 individuals as at 2008). The Javan tiger’s scientific name is Panthera tigris ssp. sondaica. The islands of Java and Sumatra are separated … Continue reading →

Posted in Javan tiger | Tagged conservation, history, human-tiger conflict, Javan Tiger, tiger, tiger conservation

Lord Harrowby – the man who inspired Henry Bergh

PoC avatarPosted on February 7, 2022 by Michael BroadFebruary 7, 2022

Henry Bergh is known as the person who perhaps did more than any other in America to improve animal welfare as he founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in April 1866. It was three … Continue reading →

Posted in ASPCA | Tagged animal welfare, ASPCA, Henry Bergh, history, Lord Harrowby, rspca

Tybert the Cat castrates the village priest in a 15th-century woodcut

PoC avatarPosted on November 29, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 29, 2021

The illustration comes from The History of Reynard the Fox. In this 15th century woodcut, we see Tybert the Cat castrating a village priest. Incidentally, “Tybert” is spelled in two other ways, namely ‘Tibert’ and ‘Tybalt’. Unusually, there is absolutely … Continue reading →

Posted in fables | Tagged castr, cat character, fable, history, human to cat relationship, pictures of cats | Leave a reply

Sly and underhand cat immortalized in a bas relief at Mahabalipuram, India

PoC avatarPosted on November 28, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 28, 2021

In a famous Indian fable in the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose from 200 BCE-300CE, the domestic cat is portrayed as sly, underhand and hypocritical. The fable which I describe below is immortalised … Continue reading →

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By today’s standard Chinese artist of the medieval era depicted the cat poorly

PoC avatarPosted on November 27, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 27, 2021

This is a topic that interests me: how artists of the mediaeval era depicted domestic cats in their paintings. And I’m sure that they felt that they were painting an accurate representation of the domestic cat before them. But by … Continue reading →

Posted in Cats in art, photography, pet blind boxes | Tagged cat history, Cats in Art, cats in paintings, China, history, Medieval times | Leave a reply

Place where farmers first domesticated the cat is now desert and there are no farmers

PoC avatarPosted on November 10, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 10, 2021

It is sad and telling of modern life that the famous place where the first wildcats were domesticated by farmers, the Fertile Crescent, which encompasses Syria and the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, is now a place where there are no … Continue reading →

Posted in cat domestication | Tagged cat domestication, cat history, climate change, feral cats, fertile crescent, global warming, history, unowned cats | Leave a reply

Cat-hater: Wu Chao, Empress of China (624-705)

PoC avatarPosted on November 4, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 4, 2021

First things first, there is a difference between cat-haters and ailurophobes. The latter have a fear of cats which might lead them to hate them but it might not. The former genuinely detest cats for whatever reason. The reason for … Continue reading →

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Origin of the phrase “scaredy-cat”

PoC avatarPosted on October 28, 2021 by Michael BroadOctober 28, 2021

It seems that “scaredy-cat” first appeared in print as “fraidie-cat” (fraidy-cat). The two sayings having very similar meanings. And they’re both based on the fact that domestic cats are often frightened of strangers. A person is described as a scaredy-cat … Continue reading →

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Is there a common ancestor to the cat and dog?

PoC avatarPosted on August 19, 2021 by Michael BroadNovember 19, 2021

Yes, there is a common ancestor to the cat and dog. If you believe in evolution as set out by Charles Darwin in his work “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection…” you will believe that there … Continue reading →

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